Gustavo Diaz
McMaster University
gustavodiaz.org
diazg2@mcmaster.ca
Slides: talks.gustavodiaz.org/tec
Explicit: Is a little bias worth the increase in precision?
Implicit: Improve precision without sacrificing unbiasedness?
Explicit: Is a little bias worth the increase in precision?
Implicit: Improve precision without sacrificing unbiasedness?
Here is a list of things that some people have done.
Please listen to them and then tell me HOW MANY of them you have done in the past two years.
Do not tell me which ones. Just tell me HOW MANY:
Do not tell me which ones. Just tell me HOW MANY:
\[ \text{Proportion(Voted yes)} =\\ \text{Mean(List with sensitive item)} -\\ \text{Mean(List without sensitive item)} \]
Did you vote YES or NO on the Personhood Initiative, which appeared on the November 2011 Mississippi General Election Ballot?
\[ \text{Proportion(Voted yes)} =\\ \text{Mean(Voted yes)} \]